On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Sanjeev <sanjeev.bagewadi at sun.com> wrote:
> Angad, > > On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 04:56:02PM +0530, Angad Singh wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have convinced the administration to install Solaris on one of our > > university's servers. This server is completely student managed. We run > our > > learning management system on this server. Earlier it was running on > Windows > > Server 2003 with IIS and MS SQL Server 2005 - the web app was made by our > > seniors in ASP.NET. I ported the entire thing to PHP recently (Drupal, > to be > > specific) and told the administration about the obvious advantages of PHP > vs > > .NET and Solaris vs Windows. > > > > I am installing OpenSolaris build 95 on this system. It does not have a > DVD > > drive, so I plugged in a portable USB dvd drive. > > > > The SXCE dvd is throwing up the weirdest error after it shows "Starting > > Java..." : > > > > WARNING: /pci at 0,0/pci103c,300a at 1d,7/storage95/disk at 0,0 (sd0): > > SCSI transport failed: reason 'timeout' giving up > > The disk seems to have stopped responding. Did a restart help ? > What hardware is it ? > It's got an Intel Xeon processor with 4 gigs of RAM. (a rather old server we have here) and has a SATA disk. What happened after that is that just when I unplugged the DVD drive the setup's GUI showed up, then I plugged it back in and completed the set of steps to start the file copying stage. It stopped at around 26%. > > I am not sure what sd0 maps to. We need to identify if that refers to > the HDD or the DVD. I would guess that it refers to DVD. Yes it seems to have been the DVD. > > > So with that assumption : > - Is the DVD driver powered through USB or does it draw > external power ? It was drawing external power, but connected to the system via USB. > > - Also, do you see any activity on the DVD drive ? Nope. Than On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Sriram Popuri <sgpopuri at gmail.com> wrote: > > pciid suggests its some HPs flash disk. So its seems theres some noise in > the USB DVD drive. Maybe the DVD drive is malfunctioning. > So it seems. > > What system is this? > Answered above.. an intel xeon.. don't know exact model number. > > On sparc, you can try /usr/platform/sun4u/sbin/prtdiag -v after choosing > the shell prompt. > Its x86. > > > ~Sriram > > It was probably a problem with installing from a DVD drive connected through USB or the dvd media (or DVD drive's lense). I'll ask the admin guys to install an internal dvd drive to it. Wish there was a way to install solaris from a pen drive or an (easy) way to install from the network. Thanks for the replies :) -- Angad Singh http://blogs.sun.com/angad Sun Campus Ambassador Tech Lead -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ug-bosug/attachments/20080924/9c6e9ce6/attachment.html>
